Mai Al-Nakib

Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait and spent the first six years of her life in London; Edinburgh; and St. Louis, Missouri. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Brown University and was an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Kuwait University for twenty years. Her short-story collection, The Hidden Light of Objects, won the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s First Book Award in 2014. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Ninth Letter, The First Line, World Literature Today, Rowayat, and The Markaz Review. She lives in Kuwait.
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